vB Stocks 1.0.0 for vB 3.0.3
 

Compatiability:
Compatiable with 3.0.x(Tested on 3.0.3)

Description:
This hack uses Yahoo Finance's external CSV feature. It converts the CSV to a readable array. This allows you to get stock quotes(not realtime but updated daily) for whatever stocks Yahoo Finance provides via stock symbols(Google = GOOG). You can also get quotes on the DowJones. Also this hack allows your users to look up stocks that you may not have already being pulled from Yahoo Finance.

Author(s):
-AN-Net
-joeaic(developed code basis)

Code Based Off Of:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/snippet/de...snippet&id=163

Live Demo:
http://www.animationation.net/community/stocks.php

Support:
Any modification to the provided files is not supportable. I also hold the right to deny support to anyone at anytime.

Where to Get Support:
-Official vB Stocks Forum
-Aim: Antonbomb22
-Email: antonbomb22@animationation.net
-this thread

Special Thanks To:
Yahoo Finance for providing the CSV and great service;)

Zip Includes:
-install.txt
-stocks.php
-stocksmanager.php

Great Job AN-NET, keep up the great hacks!

I have no use for this but still a very nice hack.

Good work! :)

Thanks for the positive feedback:)

Very nice hack, quick install (under 10 minutes) and it works great! Hopefully my users will find this as useful as I think it is.

One small suggestion/question... would it be possible to get the company name from Yahoo so a stock shows up Google - GOOG instead of just the ticker symbol? Thanks!

can you make a virtue stock market that users can buy and sell stock by their bbs money?

I dont use this buy , but great work an

dito, but very good hack.

A nice hack, but it should really cache the stock information unless you want to hammer Yahoo.

Your example sites features 13 stocks. With the current implementation, that means every time someone accesses your stock page, your server is hitting Yahoo 13 times. Imagine 20 users accessing your stock page - your server would be hitting Yahoo 260 times. Imagine 200 users accessing your stock page - Yahoo gets hit 2600 times!

they can handle it lol! anyways maybe ill look into some caching in a future version but i was really just planning on making this a one version script

It would have been super to allow members to create their portfolio. Stocks would display per member basis

That's awesome!

possible if i make a second version;)

will be anxiously waiting... Guys like you, with your skills could knock it down in 2 hours. :smoke:

good hack :D

I smell advanced coder!!!

Please do it..... please please please......

Great hack and I will use it..............

Are these live? Or 20 minute delay?

i believe their daily, it depends when yahoo updates them. check the last updated coulmn on each stock and it will say when yahoo last updated it. for real time info that would require access to yahoo's premium membership...

Most of the time Yahoo updates are between 12 and 15 minutes. Any less time than that your site would be getting overkill!

How do I put a link on the vBStocks page to the symbol list in yahoo?

Thanks.

*theArchitect Clicks Install*.

As always impressive work. Keep it up.

Whenever it can't connect to Yahoo for whatever reason, it displays an ugly message at the very top, coming from the fopen("http://finance.yahoo. ....

can we put something like if !$yahoo {echo "";}

?

I am not using the hack, but perhaps if you put a @ in front of 'fopen(...' it should help.

Thanks for the tip.

Found a small bug on this... If you go to ADMINCP > MANAGE STOCKS and try to edit any symbol other than the first one listed it brings up the first symbol to edit. Thus, no matter which one you try to "EDIT" it always edits the first one.

ill look into this:)

Great hack Thanks - I installed it................

Could you add multiple pages - like say I want one that has some major tech stocks and another on Gold stocks....

I tried putting in about thirty stocks and it really bogs down so if you could add stock sectors...... I know I am asking a lot....

Great hack............

i really am busy right now but i might eventually just cache the information in the database eventually thus making the page more optimized and faster;)

Perfect for my board.. I did a little manipulation and added the Stock Lookup feature at the top of the page, and the "Stocks To Watch" on my FORUMHOME template.

Check it out www.stocktradingtalk.com

Nice mod! Always good to see more competition out there and discusion boards for the market.

very nice functionality added;)

Any screenshots?

there is a live demo so need to for screenshots

Strictly speaking, the name for this hack is wrong. If this were truely stock oriented, there is a set of minimal information that is absolutely necessary such as 52-week highs and lows, 20-week moving averages, P/E ratios, etc.

This hack should rightly be called vbDailyMarketReport or something to that effect.

well I do not involve myself in stocks at all, so i would not really know alot about this information except for those terms you defined. found this code snippet thought it would be a great addon for sites dealing with the market and poof i released it. i had no knowledge of a more technical term and since this is the only hack relating to stocks so far i think it fits it right;)

I like the name and think it's appropriate even if more info might be nice. RE: screenshot, it seems to be practice to put up screenshots, because live sites change (e.g. guests not allowed to see feature, domain change etc..) and screens give a quick and easy look.

well currently that is the only info Yahoo offers and i dont know of any other sites that provide CSV OR external source stock information

Not sure if I missed something on the install but my stock info is not updating. www.hospitality-forum.com/forums/stocks.php